Copyright and ISBNs in Self-Publishing

I am currently readying my manuscript for publishing as an ebook, which means formatting. First, though, I needed to set my story up like a proper book, with all the wonderful things in proper books: table of contents, acknowledgements, forewords, afterwords, and so on.

So I started work on the title page, and, sadly, work did not continue.

It was all the fault of the copyright. You can laugh. I had no idea how it worked.

"Does putting copyright on a self-published book really mean it's copyrigh...